and there's knockoff effects on the economy. so the key for trying to get a handle on this issue, learn from the mistakes as eastern europe and the united states over the last hundred years or so and begin to put a serious curb on these types of emissions because it's having a major impact on the harmony of china. >> so it's one thing to impact the health of the chinese people, but how might china pollution problems really affect the rest of the world? >> well, of course, fredricka, china has been a really important economic driver here in the global economic scale especially over the last few years of the economic slump in the west. and when you look at this unrest and the riots that are happening, when you look at the impact on health care and the cost to the chinese government, there's a very real impact on the economy of china as a whole. and that certainly impacts the rest of us as the world. from an environmental perspective too smog and particlats that originate in china can be found on the beaches of the bahama and the a